smaxp writes: This is a promising development, though it should be categorized as “says easy does hard.” All of these companies, especially Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft, really understand open source software as well as anyone on the planet.

But more than money, these companies will have to dedicate some of their best people, not just for a conference, but dedicate them to monitoring and measuring existing large-scale open source projects and look for the tips of the icebergs of new open source projects that have become critical components to internet infrastructure.

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